Haaa, I love this. My partner and I watched IT earlier in the year and both remarked that Sophia Lillis was the spitting image of a young Amy Adams. We're obviously not alone as I've just started watching Sharp Objects (more on that in a second) and was greatly amused to find she's literally, actually been cast as a young Amy Adams in flashback sequences.
Terrific casting.
Weirdly, though, Adult Amy Adams has a sister in the show who is played by Australian new comer, Eliza Scanlen:
Who I now fully expect to see in some other moody HBO drama a year down the line playing the young, flashback sequence self of a character played by Kristen Bell:
Because seriously, what on earth!? They make Zooey Deschanel and early Katy Perry look nothing alike.
As for the show itself, two massive thumbs up so far. It's very dark, like a mix of Scandi noir archetypes sent full collision course in to True Detective series one with all of its bumfuck nowhere backwater charm.
Adams is especially brilliant as the troubled lead who is equal parts Rust Cohle and Saga Noren. I'm choosing to believe that her fixation with Swedish vodka and a clapped out old Volvo are deliberate nods to the dysfunctional heroines of all our favourite Scandi crime dramas.
Highly recommend, another big HBO win.
